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Digestion and end-product formation in the rumen from production rations

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Digestive Physiology and Metabolism in Ruminants

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Technical developments have allowed large numbers of measurements of the extent of digestion and synthesis in the rumen to be made in the past 20 y. The vast majority have been obtained from sheep fed at intakes close to maintenance. Attention has tended to be focussed on high-forage diets and these have often been offered in several small meals over the day in order to reduce technical problems of measuring digestion.

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Sutton, J.D. (1980). Digestion and end-product formation in the rumen from production rations. In: Ruckebusch, Y., Thivend, P. (eds) Digestive Physiology and Metabolism in Ruminants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8067-2_13

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